About Dr. Gomez

Professional Biography. Luis J. Gomez is an Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where he directs the Sublime Lab and co-directs the Consortium for Electromagnetic Technologies. He received B.S. degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from the University of Florida in 2008, and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and applied mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2013, 2014, and 2015, respectively, working with Eric Michielssen. Before joining Purdue in 2020 he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Michigan and in the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University with Angel Peterchev, where he developed focal, deep-stimulating transcranial magnetic stimulation coils.

His research develops computational electromagnetics and scientific computing methods for electromagnetic interactions in complex biological and engineered systems: new integral equation formulations, fast direct and iterative solvers, matrix compression, uncertainty quantification, and multiphysics models. His group applies these methods to computational dosimetry, coil placement optimization, and coil design for transcranial magnetic stimulation; to bidomain modeling of how neurons respond to electric fields; and, through the Consortium for Electromagnetic Technologies, to scalable solvers for layered media, chip packaging, and lithography. His group shares its code openly on GitHub, and its solvers are being integrated into neuronavigation systems.

Dr. Gomez received the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Early Career Award (2023), and Purdue’s Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award (2025). His doctoral studies were supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Neuromodulation and Imaging of Neuronal Circuits study section, a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Technical Committee on Computational Electromagnetics, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium as Technical Program Chair (2025) and as Short Course and Tutorials Chair (2026 and 2027).